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Flake: Republican Party ‘is a frog slowly boiling in water’
The Hill ^ | December 9, 2018

Posted on 12/09/2018 10:00:43 AM PST by SMGFan

Retiring Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) said in a new interview that the Republican Party has been inured to danger of President Trump's continued criticism of special counsel Robert Mueller.

"It’s like the party is a frog slowly boiling in water, being conditioned to not be worried, to not think too hard about what’s happening around them,” Flake told The Washington Post.

“They feel at a loss about what to do because it’s the president’s party, without any doubt," he said. "So, there’s a lot of whistling by the graveyard these days.”

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: bonehead; bore; doofusextraordinaire; flake; giletjaunes; giletsoranges; gop; howeburnedinthecamps; idjit; itsusorthem; jackwagon; jeffflake; mormonbarbie
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To: SMGFan

He isn’t retiring, he was fired.


61 posted on 12/09/2018 11:11:38 AM PST by cbvanb
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To: hal ogen

And the media. And who listens to media? Nobody.


62 posted on 12/09/2018 11:11:44 AM PST by marajade
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To: SMGFan

Flake is a democrat in Republican clothes... He needs to switch parties... of course he won’t because democrats don’t put up with ‘mavericks’. Ever see a democrat speak against the democrat party? The DNC doesn’t put up with that crap.


63 posted on 12/09/2018 11:13:37 AM PST by GOPJ (Term limit DC bureaucracies - a permanent unelected 'ruling class' is a threat to our democracy.)
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To: SMGFan

Flake should be thankful we live in an age where traitors within a political group are not slow boiled in water.

I can’t think when before I my lifetime I have seen such a petulant poor loser, a poor loser who could not keep the support of his own constituency before he ever declared himself the pure one and his opponents the renegades.

Flake is a man who has lived down to his name - a flake.


64 posted on 12/09/2018 11:17:34 AM PST by Wuli
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To: Wuli

And Flake got the name Flake because his family owns Snowflake, AZ. Living up to one’s namesake.


65 posted on 12/09/2018 11:21:09 AM PST by marajade
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To: marajade

Flake and his wife are blessed by having all those healthy children, but his other ‘legacy’ won’t be forgotten for a long time. It’s worse than with your typical RINO, like Susan Collins. At least in Susan’s case, she will pretend that she’s doing the right thing, while Flake admits he wants to hobble the president’s work however he can do it.
He’s probably always been that vengeful in his life.


66 posted on 12/09/2018 11:23:28 AM PST by lee martell (AT)
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To: lee martell

Can you think of anyone who would hire him after the back-stabbing he has done to good people.

Imagine how LOYAL he would be to his new employer...until the employer did something he didn’t like.

Or in a combat situation. Who would ever trust him?

He is acting like a two year old having a tantrum..Whiiiiiine, whiiiiiine, I’m holding up all judges, because I don’t liiiiiike the president.


67 posted on 12/09/2018 11:31:35 AM PST by Maris Crane
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To: SMGFan

He’s clearly put his hatred, and animosity for President Trump over the people of his State. It hasn’t served him well in the Senate, and it certainly won’t serve him well when he returns home. He’s a petty, spiteful man who puts his own needs ahead of others. He’s showed it every day. It makes you wonder how he treats his family.


68 posted on 12/09/2018 11:32:09 AM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: redgolum

Let me be the first to inform you should
any harm of any kind befall Trump
the Gillets Jaunes will look like a weenie roast


69 posted on 12/09/2018 11:34:31 AM PST by Phil DiBasquette
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To: marajade

If memory serves, didn’t one of Flake’s brats abuse and murder dogs?

IMO, One can tell a lot about a person’s character in how they treat animals. Dog abusers are below pond scum.


70 posted on 12/09/2018 11:36:19 AM PST by CrimsonTidegirl (George Washington cautioned against foreign entanglements. We should heed his words.)
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To: rigelkentaurus

In the old days, this guy would have been taken to the Senate Cloakroom and soundly thrashed. Can you imagine someone like Lyndon Johnson putting up with a putz like Flake in his party?


71 posted on 12/09/2018 11:36:20 AM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: SMGFan

A lying treasonous pos


72 posted on 12/09/2018 11:37:06 AM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: SMGFan

Only got three more weeks


73 posted on 12/09/2018 11:37:41 AM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Phil DiBasquette

Friend..

We are heading to some events that will make the previous civil war look like a rather rough day on the ball field.

The more this continues, I think it is by design.


74 posted on 12/09/2018 11:37:41 AM PST by redgolum
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To: faithhopecharity
"Thank heaven the Flake nut is out!!!"

His seat never really flipped because his twin sister Kyrsten Sinema will be sitting in it.

Just looked on Wikipedia, and discovered he was born in Snowflake, Arizona. How appropriate.

75 posted on 12/09/2018 11:40:50 AM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The only good thing about this guy is he has a fitting last name.


76 posted on 12/09/2018 11:43:36 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Yes, it's a Cold Civil War with Socialists. They don't have the stomach for a hot one.)
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To: SMGFan

Ya know, that analogy (put frogs in water, slowly bring the water to a boil) has been around for a long time. When will today’s PETA-loving biologists prove it’s true?


77 posted on 12/09/2018 11:44:03 AM PST by Robert A Cook PE (The democrats' national goal: One world social-communism under one world religion: Atheistic Islam.)
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To: Maris Crane

The Greens will take him if he wants an obvious break from the 2 Party Structure. He’s damaged goods to both parties, except on Media Shows. I can see Flake resurfacing on MSNBC or CNN. He will be the token ‘conservative’ ready to rain mud over any new GOP measure. Sort of like Michael Steele is now, the black, former RNC chair who has been a bitter bitch since we kicked him out of that position.


78 posted on 12/09/2018 11:50:26 AM PST by lee martell (AT)
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To: SMGFan

Flake is as irrelevant as Hitlery, but neither can go home, shut up, and get the heck out of our lives.


79 posted on 12/09/2018 11:52:21 AM PST by iontheball (TT'S)
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To: mass55th

I see.

Well, it sure ain’t our parents’ Arizona no mo!

what a descent!!


80 posted on 12/09/2018 12:10:12 PM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." -Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
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